Outliers are data points that don’t fit the model well. Outliers are data points that don’t fit the model well. Let’s take the previous example we did earlier.
![](https://thoughtfulexaminations.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Outlier02.png)
Here is an updated dataset with the addition of a new point corresponding to x = 13 but doesn’t make sense to the otherwise overall behaviour.
![](https://thoughtfulexaminations.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Outlier01-2.png)
You can see that the outlying data has pulled the right side of the regression line up.